Looking at the yardage, this might appear to be a relatively easy hole for the best players in the world. The small green encircled by water and sand is anything but easy. In championship after championship at Hazeltine, the winners have made par at this hole and moved on. Those who try to play it more aggressively, especially when the hole is cut in the narrow front portion of the green, are usually penalized.

At the end of the week, it ranked as the seventh toughest hole with a scoring average of 3.22

Hazeltine's holes to watch

Hazeltine National will host the 2016 Ryder Cup, just 54 years after it was founded in 1962.

But the jury is still out on a par-72 Robert Trent Jones track that will measure a frightening 7,674 yards off the back tees when the 98 of the top 100 golfers on the planet battle to snatch the Wanamaker Trophy from Padraig Harrington’s grasp. Naturally, it’s the longest course in major championship history.

Yang melts Tiger after Harrington snowman

Padraig Harrington will never forget the day that YE Yang became the first Asian-born golfer to win a major with a supreme US PGA victory at Hazeltine National last night.

It wasn’t that the 37-year old Korean birdied the last for a 70 to beat a wobbling Tiger Woods (75) by an incredible three shots on eight under par but the almost unbelievable quintuple bogey eight that the Dubliner racked up on the par-three eighth to see his hopes of a fourth major title sink without trace.

Harrington masks his pain with optimism

Pádraig Harrington wasn’t punching holes in any walls or smashing any clubs - not even the offending six iron he used to rack up that horrific eight on the shortest par three at Hazeltine National.

Padraig Harrington changes his shoes minutes after the final round at Hazeltine.The US PGA championship was over and as YE Yang paraded the Wanamaker Trophy through the clubhouse and Tiger Woods licked his wounds in the locker room, Harrington reflected on what many would consider to be a crushing disappointment.

“Jaysus lads, it’s not a wake,” he said, scanning the gloomy faces who’d sought him out in the sanctuary of the club’s caddie shack. “I don’t mind. I’m really only interested in winning and I didn’t win, that’s it.

Harrington emerges from his Bermuda Triangle

Padraig Harrington hits off the 15th tee at The Port Royal Golf Club in the final round of the 30th Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda. (Photo by Montana Pritchard/The PGA of America)It was less than eight feet - the height of the average doorway - but if Padraig Harrington goes on to win more majors he may well look back on it as the putt that helped him walk back into the light again. Considering the venue, it might be more apt to say that he escaped his very own Bermuda Triangle.